Growing fruit trees comes with many perils. As well as the unpredictable weather, there is always the risk of pests nibbling your fruit and diseases that can harm trees and wreck harvests.

Disease-resistant trees allow you to cultivate a vibrant landscape that isn't only visually appealing but is also easier to maintain. These tree varieties can survive or fend off infections due to ...

American beeches (Fagus grandifolia) have been suffering recently from a disease widespread in both Connecticut landscapes and forests, Beech leaf disease (BLD), caused by a foliar nematode, ...

Pat McElhenny, Pennsylvania Stewardship Manager at the Nature Conservancy, explains one of two diseases impacting beech trees. Beech trees are facing extinction. "When you say northern hardwood, that ...

In British Columbia, maple trees have been observed with sooty bark disease, and researchers are working on ways to reduce the rate at which the disease spreads. Sooty bark disease, which is ...

Light microscopy and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analyses of root tissues of Citrus sinensis cultivar Valencia kept in the growth room. What happens inside a citrus tree long before leaves ...

Look up through the leaves of almost any native hardwood forest in Southern Berkshire County today, and you might notice an unhealthy, strange striping to some beech leaves. Then, on closer ...